Yorkshire and Humberside Branch

Social Justice Research: Making Change Happen? – Sheffield Hallam University – Weds 8th March 2023 

The theme of this one day workshop will focus broadly on social justice and criminal justice research and academic work with practitioners, external organisations and partners. We are keen for speakers to reflect upon constructive collaboration as well as the various challenges that researchers working with practitioners or external organisations to make change happen, for example, putting theory into practice, conflicting ideologies and outcomes, or positionality or personal ethics. 

If you are interested in speaking at this event about your research or your collaboration then please send a 150-200 word abstract to Helen Johnston H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk by Monday 13th February 2023. Papers will be approximately 15-20 mins.

We welcome submissions from all researchers and aim to create a positive and inviting forum for discussion so please do encourage doctoral researchers and early career researchers to submit a paper or just to come along and join the discussion.

‘Emotionally Challenging Research’ event  held at the Leeds Trinity University campus in Horsforth, Leeds on Monday 21 November 2022.

Keynote lecture given by Professor Sharon Grace (University of York) on ‘Hearing the voices of women involved in drugs and crime’.

The aim is to hold three face-to-face events across this academic year, in July 2023 the Regional chair Helen Johnston will be stepping down and will be keen to hear from people who might be interested in taking up this role as chair or anyone who would like to join her to collaborate in the short-term. Contact H.Johnston@hull.ac.uk

North West branch

Future events to be announced.

Midlands branch

BSC Midlands Regional group with University of Wolverhampton: Reimagining Probation and the Rehabilitation of Offenders Conference. 18 January 2023, 9am-6pm; University of Wolverhampton, City Campus.

Registration for the event is required – You can Register here.

This conference invites academics and practitioners to discuss their experiences, examinations, or expectations of the renationalisation of the Probation Service in England and Wales and further appraise what path the new model imagines for probation and the rehabilitation of offenders. In addition, the conference is interested in other developments in the area that may have accompanied renationalisation, such as OMiC, IOM (Refresh) and others and their impact on the culture and practice of probation and associated services. The conference also appreciates how the renationalisation era has come after the challenging part-privatised state of the Probation Service which has been heavily criticised by academics, practitioners, and service users alike. As such, it also invites discussion of the aftermath of part-privatisation of the service in relation to the state in which renationalisation has found probation services, and, crucially, the continuing impact of the Transforming Rehabilitation policy. Finally, the conference is interested in comparative approaches as well as experience or research on probation from other jurisdictions which may demonstrate developments in working with offenders and new rehabilitation policies outside England and Wales too.

COVID & Imprisonment: BSC & CJRC Event. 24 February 2022.

BSC Midlands Branch & Criminal Justice Research Centre, University of Nottingham

Speakers:

• Professor Lynn Saunders OBE = Prison leadership during COVID.

• Dr Olga Suhomlinova = Transgender and non-binary prisoners and COVID.

• Steve Bravery = COVID prison risk assessment, risk reduction, and remote reviews during COVID.

• Paula Harriott & PPN = Covid-19 Action Prisons Project: Tracking Innovation, Valuing Experience.

• Oscar O’Mara = A prison ethnography PhD during COVID.

Author Meets Critic: ‘Complex Inequalities and Innovative Solutions.’ University of Derby on 6 July 2022  

The speakers and critics for this event were: 

• Valeria Abreu, University of Derby, UK – Changing Patterns of Domestic Homicide in light of Covid-19 in England and Wales. 

• Thomas Guiney, University of Nottingham, UK – Parole, Parole Boards and the institutional Dilemmas of Contemporary Prison Release. 

• Andrew Henley, University of Nottingham, UK –   When ‘Ideal Victim’ meets ‘Criminalised Other’: Criminal Records and the Denial of the Victim. 

• David Patton, University of Derby, UK – Motivations for Change in Drug Recovery: Turning Points as the Antidotes to the Pains of Recovery. 

Desistance and Rehabilitation: International Perspectives 

Southern branch

South Coastal (in association with the Institute of Criminal Justice Research, University of Southampton)

Future events to be announced.

South West branch

Future events to be announced.

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